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Perhaps only true sci-fi fans can pick up a book and note, without yelping in protest, that it takes place in roughly A.D. 3705. Yet Peter Ackroyd's The Plato Papers (Doubleday; 173 pages; $19.95) offers just such a leap forward in time with almost no accompanying science or fiction, at least in the sense of narrative exposition and descriptions of characters and settings. So what is Ackroyd, a prolific British biographer and novelist (The Life of Thomas More, English Music...
...murder was the second murder in Cambridge in 1999. On Sept. 18, a 30-year-old Dorchester man was shot and killed outside the Hi-Fi Pizza store near Central Square following an argument with the occupants of a Jeep...
...Army's $2.1 billion effort to turn soldiers into 21st century fighting machines may be facing defeat. The "Land Warrior" program, launched in 1996, packs 90 lbs. of computers, radios, targeting devices and body armor onto a sci-fi G.I. topped with a Cyclops-like helmet...
...dazzling effects and the dizzying ways it toys with reality, virtual and actual, this film may or may not portend cinema's future. But who cares about that when what we have from Larry and Andy Wachowski is a demonically hip, computer-driven reimagining of the dorked-out sci-fi tradition...
...Then again, perhaps we should not expect too much gritty sci-fi out of what may just be a futuristic family film. As seen here, the cityscapes and landscapes of tomorrow are indeed gorgeous to look at. The neat visual surprises include a double-decker Golden Gate Bridge. And the key futuristic detail, the robot star himself, is a lot of fun to watch. His movements strike an intriguing balance between fluidity and mechanics, while in the face, Robin Williams the robot is a curious metallic echo of Robin Williams...